Tag Archive for 'Nitrogen-15'

Morphology of Saxifraga candelabrum. Image credit: Zhang et al., doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-75288-y.

Scientists Add Unlikely New Member to World’s Carnivorous Plants

Aug 5, 2026 by Natali Anderson

More than 150 years after Charles Darwin first wondered whether certain sticky-leaved Saxifraga plants might be secretly carnivorous, Kunming Institute...

This image shows part of the spectrum of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, captured in December 2025 with the UVES instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Image credit: ESO / C. Opitom / Manfroid et al. / O. Hainaut.

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Likely Originated in Outskirts of Ancient Planetary System

Jul 6, 2026 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have measured carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar visitor...

Forensic facial reconstruction of another Australopithecus species - A. afarensis. Image credit: Cicero Moraes / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Australopithecus Didn’t Regularly Eat Meat, New Study Shows

Jan 20, 2025 by News Staff

Australopithecus had a variable but plant-based diet, according to an analysis of stable isotope data from seven hominin specimens dating back 3.5 million...

The dendroid rugosa coral Dendrostella trigemme and fragments of the tabulate coral Roemerolites brevis rhiphaeus. Image credit: Jung et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08101-9.

Mid-Devonian Coral Reef Fossils Provide Early Evidence of Photosymbiosis

Oct 28, 2024 by News Staff

The symbiotic relationship between corals and their photosynthetic algal partners (photosymbionts) goes back at least to the Devonian (385 million years...